Windows 10: Explorer is very slow when opening folders with .HEIC pictures

Is there any fix for this? Or is this just a scenario where Explorer handles it badly? I also noticed Photos is slower at loading these pictures than JPEG and so on. My computer is not slow, newer Ryzen build.

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How to view Apple's .HEIC pictures

It should work, it does for me. Try Fabler2's suggestion in post #6 and reset the app.

Reset App in Windows 10






You could also see if you can open known good sample .heic pictures, like the sample1.heic seen above that I got from here:

Sample HEIC Files Download - Get Examples Instantly

 

How to view Apple's .HEIC pictures

Tried resetting (twice). It did not work.

I also tried uninstalling (so that I could reinstall). But that doesn't work.

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saple1.heic did not work either.




I'm trying to avoid installing Irfan or the other suggestions. I may end up liking that. But I don't need any high end image applications and I don't want too much clutter. As it stands, systems nowadays already have multiple applications which try to vie for each file type and I want to stick to one or the other, preferably the defaults. But it looks like I may have to do so.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.